Brazos Private Equity Partners, a Dallas-based private investment firm, has invested in European Wax Center (EWC), a provider of facial and body wax treatment services through its network of franchise stores. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Existing management, led by co-founders David and Josh
ACAS CLO 2013-1, an affiliate of American Capital, has closed on the sale of USD414m of collateralised loan obligation bonds. The transaction was arranged by Deutsche Bank Securities. The CLO is externally managed by American Capital Leveraged Finance Management, a subsidiary of American Capital Asset Management, a wholly-owned portfolio company
GenNx360 Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing on middle market industrial business-to-business companies, has acquired Horsburgh & Scott (H&S) for an undisclosed amount. Horsburgh & Scott is a custom gearing manufacturer for the global marketplace. H&S manufactures, repairs, and services highly-engineered, customer specific industrial gears and gear
Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm investing in the financial services sector, and Genstar Capital, a middle market private equity firm based in San Francisco, are to acquire Genworth Wealth Management from Genworth Financial for USD412.5m. The sale by Genworth includes both of Genworth Wealth Management’s
Private equity firm GMT Communications Partners’ portfolio company MeetingZone has completed its third bolt-on acquisition in 18 months. MeetingZone, the independent global audio/web conferencing and collaboration services provider, has acquired Atia Communications, the UK based provider of Unified Communications (UC) services and a Microsoft Lync 2010 accredited specialist. The
Electra Private Equity has reported an uplift in its diluted net asset value per share of 33p as a result of the successful IPO of UK motor insurer esure, its third largest investment at 30 September 2012. In 2010, Electra invested GBP30m (via the Tosca Penta Investments LP fund)
Argon Medical Devices, a portfolio company of private equity firm RoundTable Healthcare Partners, is to acquire the Interventional Products Business of Angiotech Pharmaceuticals. The Interventional Products Business manufactures and markets disposable and re-usable biopsy products for the diagnosis of cancer, drainage catheter products, and vascular interventional products. The
FPI Innovation Fund has attracted and arranged a co-investment of EUR10m into ANF Technology, the producer of NAFEN, the first ever superior-grade aluminium oxide nano fibre to be produced at commercially viable industrial volumes. FPI typically invests directly at the earliest stage in a company’s development, when risks are
Neuralstem has secured USD8m in debt financing with Hercules Technology Growth Capital to fund the company’s capital budget through late 2014. "This debt financing extends our cash runway well into late 2014 at a critical time in our clinical product development cycle. We have multiple NSI-566 cell therapy clinical
European private equity fundraising remains subdued, with volumes raised over the last four years (2009-2012) being only 40 per cent of those raised in the four year period prior to that (2005-2008), according to research carried out by Acanthus Advisers. However, for funds with well differentiated strategies and solid
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